World Press Freedom Day – 3 May

Imagine for a moment that you are on assignment somewhere and you hear the deafening sound of a fleet of fighter planes; they are coming in to attack that place in order to destroy everybody there. This threat looms day and night, without respite. Your stomach is tense with fear, but you walk on, preferably at night so that no one can see you. You try to reassure yourself — you are neither an attacker nor a member of the armed resistance. Your weapon, your reason for being in this place, is your desire to provide witness to what others cannot see. You are a messenger.